Maxtor Mini External Hard Drive

[Tony Corbett]

" sudo fdisk -l" results in :



Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        4694    37704523+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2            4695        4870     1413720    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            4695        4870     1413688+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
Note: sector size is 4096 (not 512)

Disk /dev/sda: 3892 MB, 3892056064 bytes
38 heads, 42 sectors/track, 595 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1596 * 4096 = 6537216 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         596     3800580    b  W95 FAT32
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 1, 22)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(59, 37, 42) logical=(595, 13, 42)


> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:36:48 -0500
> From: dan at spore.ath.cx
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Maxtor Mini External Hard Drive
> 
> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:25:50 +1000
> Tony Corbett <corbtr at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Tried "dmesg" and there is plenty of ref to the usb maxtor 
> > so i guess its sorta being detected any further thoughts ?
> > Cheers
> > Tony
> > 
> USB drives (hard drives or SD/MMC/etc. through converter, flash
> drives, etc) correspond to a device file /dev/sd[a-z] (in regex
> -regular expression- syntax, that means any lowercase letter from a to
> z).  Their partitions will be found as device files of the same, but 
> numbered from 1. So any drive the linux kernel 'sees' will have device
> files:
>  /dev/sd[a-z]
>  /dev/sd[a-z][0-9]+ created for it (and numbers higher, no doubt)
> 
> I find myself doing this kind of thing manually quite often,
> and so usually use the bash tab-completion feature to 'scan'
> for new /dev/sd[...] devices.  
> 
> fdisk can tell us whether a drive is partitioned (and
> whether it is seen at all, for that matter):	
>    $ sudo fdisk -l
> to get an example, why not try that command now?  If your maxtor is
> there, you'll be able to identify it in the list by size.  The
> partitions will also be listed along with their sizes and types.  A
> very nice tool.
> 
> You'll probably need to format the drive.  You might consider xfs or
> reiserfs if your system supports it; these filesystems are faster than
> ext3.  Ubuntueers should be more into them.  
> 
> 
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